Please help! Snakeoil offers on the Canadian Firearms Digest mailing list...

[Jean-Francois Avon]

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As of today, I'm off the list.  It must be the Fickle Finger of Fate
that made that post appear on the CFD today!


It looks like snake oil, it taste like snakeoil, is smell like snakeoil;
Is *it* snakeoil?

======= forwarded by JFA, from Canadian Firearms Digest ==========

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:30:34 -0600
From: Lee Scroggins <goobr2 at ptd.net>
Subject: New/easy to use strong file encryption fyi

For anyone interested in easy to use strong file encryption, or just
afraid that your gun related data/Emails may be too tempting for the
officials, the following article points to an interesting site
(http://www.filesafety.com).

Please note that the US govt seems to be having a hissy fit about it
(you might want to look while it still exists).


>
> - - The Strange Case of Charles Booher - -
>
> The California man whose software drew the interest of the Commerce
Department
> now has been hit with a subpoena. Charles Booher must appear before a U.S.
> District Court grand jury in San Jose to explain what he is doing with his
> encryption software, SecureOffice.
>
> Individuals can be charged with violating federal restrictions on the
export
> of encryption software, but the government also appears to be worried that
> Booher has simply made it to easy to use extremely secure
encryption--with or
> without export. Booher's software scrambles data with long 168-bit keys.
>
> The subpoena Booher received also ordered him to bring to the courthouse
the
> source code for his product, suggesting the government wants to reverse
> engineer it.
> Booher intends to patent his source code and says he does not plan to
hand it
> over to anyone.
>
>
http://foxnews.com/js_index.sml?content=/scitech/wires2/0827/t_rt_0827_27.sm
l
> View the Commerce Dept.'s subpoena at http://www.filesafety.com



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Jean-Francois Avon, B.Sc. Physics, Montreal, Canada
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